Trash & archiving

Nothing you delete disappears at once. Tasks, projects, views, dashboards and docs go to the Trash first, where they can be restored.

#Moving something to the Trash

Press d d on a task, project, view, dashboard or doc — or choose Move to Trash from its right-click or ••• menu. You're asked to confirm, and an Undo follows.

• A task with sub-tasks: you choose whether its sub-tasks go to the Trash too or stay as top-level tasks. If they go, you're asked the same about their sub-tasks, and so on down.
• A project with tasks: you choose whether its tasks go too, or stay without a project.

Whatever goes along travels with it — restoring the task or project brings them back together.

#The Trash

Trash in the sidebar (g x) lists what was deleted, grouped by kind, with when each item went and when it will be deleted for good.

• Restore (or r r) puts an item back where it was. Restoring a sub-task whose parent is also in the Trash asks whether to bring the parent back too.
• Delete forever (or d d in the Trash) removes it.
• Select several with x, v or ⌘/CtrlA, just as in a task list.

Items are deleted for good after they've been in the Trash for 30 days. Admins can change how long in Settings → Workspace Settings → Trash.

You can also restore something from Activity: reverting a "moved to the Trash" entry restores it.

#What skips the Trash

Statuses, priorities, task types, labels and doc statuses are deleted straight away, by admins only — see deleting them. A deleted workspace can be restored by its owner for 30 days — see Workspaces & people.

#Archiving tasks

Archiving is different from deleting: it keeps a finished or parked task fully intact but hides it from your task views. Press u x on a focused or selected task (or in a task's tab) to archive it, and again to unarchive.

To see archived tasks, add show:archived to a view's query (archived tasks mixed in) or show:archived-only (just them). See Query language.